During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early
morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists
stormed the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes,
killing two and taking nine others hostage.

The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September,
in return for the release of the hostages, they demanded that
Israel release over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israeli jails
and two German terrorists.

In an ensuing shootout at the Munich airport, the nine Israeli
hostages were killed along with five terrorists and one West
German policeman. Olympic competition was suspended for
24 hours to hold memorial services for the slain athletes.

Black September terrorist looks from the balcony of an apartment where Israeli Olympic team members are held hostage.

With terrorists holed up in the Israeli athletes’ quarters,
swarms of German policemen, in uniform and plain
clothes, move in and seal off the area.

A German policeman leans against a wall outside the
apartment.

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American
students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis on this
day, in which the students were initially prevented from entering
the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower.

A photograph of Elizabeth Eckford attempting to enter
Little Rock School on 4th September, 1957. 

Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas (1910 – 1994)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 – 1969)

(AP) – A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in decades
and feared to be lost for good — is among the discoveries
made by the company with salvage rights to the wreck site
on its first expedition there in many years.

RMS Titanic Inc., a Georgia-based company that holds the
legal rights to the 112-year-old wreck, has completed its
first trip since 2010 and released images from the expedition
on Monday. The pictures show a site that continues to change
more than a century later.

James William Ercolani (June 8, 1936 – September 2, 2024),
known by his stage name James Darren. He died in his sleep
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 88.

1961